After having had a good heart-to-heart with Nor, I have decided to spend today in bed feeling sorry for myself. Just for today. Tomorrow I will get up feeling grateful and productive and will stop being a big crybaby. Sometimes life gives you lemons and you really don't feel like making lemonade. What you would really like to do is take the lemons and throw them back as hard as you can. Sometimes you really just feel like being really ticked off about the flippin’ lemons and yelling every single swear word you know at the top of your lungs. But if you are always within earshot of young and impressionable people like the children, then you will be forced to yell out substitute swear words–which are not even remotely satisfying. Thank goodness for friends who tell you to go ahead and hide under the covers, think your worst possible thoughts, cry your eyes out, and to be as ticked off at the world as much as you want, then remind you of every single good thing you have in your life s...
tales from suburbia and the dark side of motherhood